Dog leg in wood burl

[ashwinearl]

Another dogleg in wood burl. Stainless steel, mill relieved liners, custom engraved for 80th birthday

[treefarmer]

That's quite a looker! The grain is beautiful, it matches the workmanship.
Treefarmer

[wlf]

Nice. I would never have guessed you were 80.

What's next?

[doglegg]

[FRJ]

That is a beautiful knife.

Love that spear ....... and the long pull.

What skills!

[ashwinearl]

Nice. I would never have guessed you were 80.

What's next?

I have a last dogleg in blue bone. It has been challenging. The natural bone has a tendency to bow, so it is bending the liners. The spring came out too light, so am an redoing the spring from scratch with more meat on the inside to bring back some tension. Then I can reduce from there. Sometimes when flushing the spin, enough meat is removed from the back that the tension gets too light. That means there wasn't enough meat on the spring to begin with.

Then I have a barlow with clip blade/long pull after that.

I just ordered a fiber laser. So that will take a good few months to learn and incorporate into the process. My goal was to improve the makers mark and be able to to do more creative blade markings like some older vintages.